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Alcohol abuse was common in the early 1800s, especially in the West and among urban workers. Reformers blamed alcohol for poverty, the breakup of families, and crime. They called for temperance, drinking little or no alcohol. Temperance crusaders used lectures, pamphlets, and revival-style rallies to warm people of the dangers of alcohol.

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Why did people feel like this is a problem

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Why did people feel like this is a problem

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Drinking can effect the ways that people live to effecting their body to even harming their body. The country's first serious anti-alcohol movement grew out of a fervor for reform that swept the nation in the 1830s and 1840s.

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This was a movement to help save the conscience and family harmony. There was also other groups that focused on suppressing consumption by the lower economic classes to maintain social order and reduce crime that was caused by alcohol.

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Lucian Minor had prepared its legislative papers, served as chairman of its central committee, came nearest to effecting an organization of the counties behind it, and published in the Southern Literary Messenger of July 1850"The Temperance Reformation in Virginia," which was a brief history of the movement. The activity was later grounded on considerations of humanity and statesmanship rather then on religion.

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Carry Nation was a big part in the prohibition (making it illegal to manufacture and distribute alcohol) movement that women did not have the right to vote. She began  by using persuasion and prayer to make her point. When this approach seemed to fail she began to destroy saloons. This phase of her activities lasted only a short time and she turned to spreading her message by lecturing to groups in the United States and Europe.

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“I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.”

-Carry Nation

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What methods would they use to spread their message  

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What methods would they use to spread their message  

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When people tried to stop other people from drinking, they would try and talk it out first but if the people didn't listen they would go into the bar with bricks and smash everything.

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Since alcohol was banned, alcoholics started making bad decisions since their drinking habits changed drastically. Alcohol related deaths and accidents were rising too.